Hi everyone, I'm having trouble setting up a bridge with Linux 2.4.18, and could really use some assistance on the matter. ;)
I'm using a Dual PentiumIII 850 for the bridge. It's running Linux 2.4.18, with the latest bridge-nf patch from bridge.sourceforge.net installed. I have two Intel Ethernet Pro 100 nics (eth1 and eth2) for bridging, and a third 3Com 9985 on eth0 (so that I can assign an IP to the machine and be able to remotely access my bridge, incase any might go wrong while I'm at home. According to the documentation, I needed to run: # brctl addbr br0 # brctl addif br0 eth1 # brctl addif br0 eth2 # ifconfig br0 ip The two networks use 192.168.0.0/24 addresses, so I assigned the bridge to use 192.168.0.100 (Which isn't in use). From the documentation, I am unclear as to why I need to assign an IP to the bridge, because a bridge shouldn't need one (unless its to make life easier with the netfilter rules?), maybe someone could answer that just to satisfy my curiousity. Also, the documentation didn't mention any regarding how to select an IP to use with the bridge, is there something else I should be using for it? The network I'm trying to build is designed like this: Link -> router1 -> hub1 -> bridge -> hub2 Where, on hub1 and hub2, several machines are connected. I'd like the bridge machine to handle firewalling and traffic shaping for the second network segment, which is why I'm going iwth a bridge rather than just a stretch of cat5 or something. However, when I connect the bridge (with the configuration I have shown above), nothing passes through it. I've followed the documentation verbatim and cannot find anything that helps with my problem. No error messages are generated, and all options are built properly into the kernel (its monolithic, of course, so its not a problem with loading modules). I've tried absolutely everything I can think of to no avail, and I've discovered that #linux* channels aren't useful sources of knowledge and/or assistance, so firing off the email to this list was my next option. Any and all assistance/suggestions on this are greatly appreciated. I'm sure its something simple that I've done wrong, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is. Regards, Mark S. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
